Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

IndieWire: Ben Travers The Best TV Series of 2020

Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall

New York Public Library Top 10 Books of 2020

Finna - Nate Marshall

New York Public Library Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020

Artforum: Perfume Genius Best Music of 2020

Shakedown - Leilah Weinraub

Artforum: Cassie da Costa 10 Best Films of 2020

Artforum: Erika Balsom 10 Best Films of 2020

The Woman Who Ran - Hong Sang-soo

Artforum: James Quandt 10 Best Films of 2020

Artforum: Amy Taubin 10 Best Films of 2020

Butt Boy - Tyler Cornack

Artforum: John Waters 10 Best Films of 2020

Actress - Anne Enright

BBC Culture: Lindsay Baker The Best Books of the Year 2020

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2020

Nice White Parents

Time: Eliana Dockterman The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

Time The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020

Cleanness - Garth Greenwell

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020

Róisín Machine - Róisín Murphy

BBC Culture: Nick Levine Best Albums of 2020

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

The Booker Prize 2020 Award

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Time The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2020

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

O Magazine 20 Best Books of 2020

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

A Burning - Megha Majumdar

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

National Book Award Fiction 2020

The Dead Are Arising - Les Payne and Tamara Payne

National Book Award Nonfiction 2020

DMZ Colony - Don Mee Choi

National Book Award Poetry 2020